Contributors

Contents/Summary

Does the role of concepts make experiental access to ready-made reality impossible?

Ought to believe--two concepts

Entitlement to believe and practices of inquiry

Historicizing the belief-forming self

Epistemology of religion

The migration of the theistic arguments : from natural theology to evidentialist apologetics

Can belief in God be rational if it has no foundations?

Once again, evidentialism--this time social

The assurance of faith

On being entitled to beliefs about God

Reformed epistemology

Are religious believers committed to the existence of God

Reid on common sense

What sort of epistemological realist was Thomas Reid?

Postscript: A life in philosophy.

Publisher's Summary

Practices of Belief, the second volume of Nicholas Wolterstorff's collected papers, brings together his essays on epistemology from 1983 to 2008. It includes not only the essays which first presented 'Reformed epistemology' to the philosophical world, but also Wolterstorff's latest work on the topic of entitled (or responsible) belief and its intersection with religious belief. The volume presents five new essays and a retrospective essay that chronicles the changes in the course of philosophy over the last fifty years. Of interest to epistemologists, philosophers of religion, and theologians, Practices of Belief should engage a wide audience of those interested in the topic of whether religious belief can be responsibly formed and maintained in the contemporary world. (source: Nielsen Book Data)